Word: stewart
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...Most of the female nominees and presenters were dressed to the nines, or the 99s, in revealingly chic outfits. Stewart puckishly demanded the world for sympathy for poor Hollywoodians: ?There are women here who could afford barely enough gown to cover their breasts.? I?m no fashion expert, but I?ll vote for Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams, the downhome gal from Junebug looking uptown resplendent, and for whatever frock the slap-yourself-silly gorgeous Salma Hayek was wearing under her soft curls and sexy cheekbones. I?ll also hand out an Oscar for golden perkiness to Witherspoon, who looked...
...Syriana, not as a director or screenwriter of Good Night, and Good Luck. ?All right,? he fake-sulked when he accepted his trophy, ?so I?m not winning Director.? But he did serve, with handsome grace, as Hollywood?s poster boy for glamour, taking a few genial shots from Stewart (?I kid because I envy?) and hearing a female winner of the Short Subject Oscar ?thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the nominees? luncheon.? (The star, who knew a camera was trained on him throughout the ceremony, flashed a look of mild chagrin...
...Clooney was the evening?s (and Hollywood?s) epitome of intelligent hunkitude, Witherspoon was Oscar?s darling, Hollywood?s homecoming queen. She presented one prize, accepted another. She was also the subject of one of the show?s very funny ?attack ads? (voiced by Stewart?s old Daily Showcrony, now cable TV?s favorite mock-scold, Stephen Colbert) against every Actress nominee but good old American Reese...
...political animosities weren?t familial (as in The Moon and the Son) or civic (as in Crash) or historical (as in Good Night, and Good Luck.), they were national and global. And partisan. George W. Bush?s name was not mentioned all night, but Stewart got his first hearty laugh of the night when he solemnly informed the audience that Bjork, whose bizarre bird-draped couture had stoked a stir five years ago, ?couldn?t be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot...
...give Stewart?s 10-minute opening monologue a gentleman?s B-intermittently funny, but not what I?d expected from the current god of comedy. The audience received his jokes indulgently but not warmly. He wasn?t David Letterman (another TV outsider who bombed as an Oscar host in 1995), but he wasn?t Steve Martin or Billy Crystal. There were moments when the usually unflappable Stewart, gauging the tepid response, made the flop-sweat asides of a bombing standup comic. (?Work with me.? ?I?m a loser.?) And part of his problem was that he was working against...